Mike Hooper

The president of NIPSCO is stepping down. Mike Hooper is leaving the company after 13 years this Friday for a job in Wisconsin. Parent company NiSource says Vince Parisi, the president and CEO of another of its subsidiaries, Columbia Gas of Ohio, will also lead NIPSCO on an interim basis.

NIPSCO says its first two Indiana-based solar projects are now online. Indiana Crossroads Solar in White County was developed by EDP Renewables North American and generates 200 megawatts. The first phase of NextEra Energy Resources' Dunns Bridge Solar generates 265 megawatts in Jasper County.